Not surprisingly, the list is weighted towards science fiction and fantasy writers. The well-known ones include Elizabeth Bear, Lisa Goldstein, Vonda McIntyre, Richard Parks, Jo Walton, Mercedes Lackey, and Jane Yolen. Michael Swanwick is one of the finest “literary” writers in SF and is very well known. Kim Stanley Robinson is also very well known. I recognize several other SF writers, such as Hal Duncan, whose works I have not read personally.

As for non-SF writers: There’s a writer on there whose historic-costume-related book I reviewed recently, and I recognize a few self-publishers from e-lists.

Amazing! A Canadian news broadcaster
fails to mention that Ursula Le Guin’s
initiative is modelled on a Canadian
petition against Google that now has
more than 450 canadian authors signed
up to it. Le Guin has thanked the
Canadian team that started the
petition for their initiative. The
Canadian petition has been submitted
to the government with a plea for
intervention and an official objection
will be filed for the court hearing on
the Google settlement on February 18.
So yes, the David vs. Googliath battle
is being waged on home turf. [KGordon
wrote:Posted 2010/01/23 at 11:29 PM
ET]

The Canadian Government is refusing to stand up and defend the (copy)rights of Canadians in the international community. As of December 8, 2010, the Honourable James Moore, the Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages, (the ministry responsible for copyright policy) had implied in a letter to my Member of Parliament that we’ll, Canadians, will let the Americans decide the value of Canadian copyrights in their courts. That is the message that I’m getting from Mr. Moore; I, an Anglophone, do not know what message a Francophone would get.
Douglas Fevens,
Halifax, Nova Scotia,
The University of Wisconsin, Google, & Me